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        <h1>old feleases</h1>
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  <h2>old babl releases</h2>
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2018-10-05 babl-0.1.60                                              </dt><dd>
Improved thread safety, acceleration for R'G'B'A u8 -> cairo-ARGB32 conversion.
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2018-10-05 babl-0.1.58                                              </dt><dd>
Preserve color of transparent pixels in conversion to premultiplied alpha,
Added single precision code-paths for faster fallback/reference conversions.
New BABL_ICC_INTENT_PERFORMANCE bitflag for combining with intent as bitflags,
use of matrix+trc when relative colorimetric CLUT is present. New color model
and formats, CIE xyY.

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2018-08-14 babl-0.1.56                                              </dt><dd>
Improvements to the caching of profiled conversion chains between invocations
by ignoring unknown bits in cache file and remember which conversions yielded
reference fishes.

2018-07-23 babl-0.1.54                                              </dt><dd>
                                                                    </dd><dt>
Export babl_space_get_icc, babl_space_get, babl_model_with_space,
babl_space_with_trc, babl_format_get_encoding, babl_model_is, SSE2 versions of
YA float and Y float to CIE L float.
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2018-06-02 babl-0.1.52                                              </dt><dd>
Concurrency fixes and fixes to handling of 0/1 entry palettes, do not
pre-equalize XYZ conversion matrices for sRGB, internal clean-ups, pre-define
ACES2065-1 and ACEScg BablSpaces, add R~G~B~ set of spaces, which for all
BablSpaces mean use sRGB TRC.
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2018-05-20 babl-0.1.50                                              </dt><dd>
Improvements to speed and precision of indexed code, improvements to meson
build.
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2018-05-15 babl-0.1.48                                              </dt><dd>
fix u8 &lt;-&gt; double conversions for chroma, SSE2 version of RGBA float to
CIE L / Lab. Build with -Ofast by default.
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2018-04-10 babl-0.1.46                                              </dt><dd>
added extensions with more coverage for u32, half and other utilit fast paths
improving fast path coverage.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2018-02-18 babl-0.1.44                                              </dt><dd>
Fix bug in custom primaries/ICC fast paths, improve meson build<br/>
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2018-01-23 babl-0.1.42                                              </dt><dd>
Fully initialize fishes when loading from cache. <br/>
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2018-01-16 babl-0.1.40                                              </dt><dd>
Added format "CIE XYZ alpha" color model and formats.
New API babl_process_rows for reduced overhead in some scenarios; though bigger
gains seen also for regular babl_process with reimplemented branch-free
dispatch, and faster cbrt. Added meson build; being tested in parallel with
auotmake, Improved reference conversions for formats skipping some of models
components, Fixed gamma handling in indexed/palettized formats and improved
gamma precision consistenct in sse2 conversions.<br/>
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2017-11-15 babl-0.1.38                                              </dt><dd>
Added format "CIE L float", a couple of protections against division by 0.0
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2017-11-10 babl-0.1.36                                              </dt><dd>
Optimized customized primary aware code paths for CIE Lab<->RGB conversions,
improved accuracy of gamma approximations. New API babl_format_exists() for
checking validity of babl format name, crash proofing of cache handling and use
of environment variables.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2017-10-06 babl-0.1.34                                              </dt><dd>
Brown paper bag release, Fix indexed / custom primaries conflict, and re-export
a symbol used by old GEGL/GIMPs.
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2017-10-03 babl-0.1.32                                              </dt><dd>
Added custom primaries and TRC support through ICC parsing, improved
float<->half performance, rewrite of all conversions functions to adhere to new
signature.
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2017-07-15 babl-0.1.30                                              </dt><dd>
Thread stability for palette modes, stricter alpha preservation, now
cross-compilable on android.
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2017-05-30 babl-0.1.28                                              </dt><dd>
Fast paths for Lav <-> Lch, release triggered by pending GIMP release.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2017-05-09 babl-0.1.26                                              </dt><dd>
Build and install HCY color space, platform independences fixes to fish cache.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2017-02-01 babl-0.1.24                                              </dt><dd>
Improvements to profile cache persistance, fast paths that improve actual GIMP
use on various precisions, use single precision constants for some more of CIE
computions.
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2016-11-05 babl-0.1.22                                              </dt><dd>
Added cache of profiled conversions, added HCY color model, some precision and
performance updated for fast paths.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2016-11-05 babl-0.1.20                                              </dt><dd>
Fix run-time errors, leaks, and race conditions. Add conditional fast paths.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2016-06-13 babl-0.1.18                                              </dt><dd>
Bugfix: take alpha threshold in consideration when processing floats in SSE2.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2016-02-12 babl-0.1.16                                              </dt><dd>
Improvements to half float reference, SIMD, and fast-paths, and CIE float fast
paths; cleanups of fast path extensions.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2015-11-19 babl-0.1.14                                              </dt><dd>
sRGB precision tuning, stability fixes, locale fix for setting error tolerance.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2015-02-03 babl-0.1.12                                              </dt><dd>
optimizations for floating point conversions, HSV and HSL color models,
removal of dead code, fixed CIE Lab conversions.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2012-03-30 babl-0.1.10                                              </dt><dd>
LUT based speedups for gamma correction / uncorrection.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2012-03-30 babl-0.1.8                                               </dt><dd>
Added support for indexed/pallette based formats, constified API.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2011-11-18 babl-0.1.6                                               </dt><dd>
Build improvements, remove blatantly wrong conversions from extensions,
made it possible to distinguish format_n formats from others, improvements
to vala/gobject introspection support.

                                                                    </dd><dt>
2011-01-20 babl-0.1.4                                               </dt><dd>
Improved cross platform build ability, added code to handle n-component formats,
remove extraenous runtime profiling that impacted performance.

                                                                    </dd><dt>
2010-01-15 babl-0.1.2                                               </dt><dd>
Made babl mostly threadsafe (sufficient for GIMP/GEGLs needs). Streamlined core functionality, reducing number of function calls and removing overeager instrumentation.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2009-05-20 babl-0.1.0                                               </dt><dd>
Support for RGBA representation in the frequency domain,
un-pre-multiply close-to-zero alpha values to complete black instead
of slightly brighter than black, add a BABL_ALPHA_THRESHOLD constant
to the API, do a complete overhaul of the babl API and do some
changes to increase portability of the library.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2008-06-12 babl-0.0.22                                              </dt><dd>
Speed improvements due to: coalesced hashing, early bail out upon creation of
duplicate formats, caching of non existing paths. Large amounts of the core has
also been reviewed and refactored. Improved conversion coverage in the matrix.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2008-02-27 babl-0.0.20                                              </dt><dd>
Builds on OSX
Check <0.0 and >1.0 values conversions for accuracy as well.

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2007-12-30 babl-0.0.18                                              </dt><dd>
Constified use of babl formats.

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2007-11-25 babl-0.0.16                                              </dt><dd>
Reduced constant overhead for linear conversions.
Misc build environment cleanups.

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2007-01-07 babl-0.0.14                                              </dt><dd>
Cache values parsed from BABL_foo environment variables.
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2007-01-07 babl-0.0.12                                              </dt><dd>
Speedups for GEGL
Build environment fixes.
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2006-xx-xx babl-0.0.10                                              </dt><dd>
Build environment fixes.

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2006-12-29 babl-0.0.8                                               </dt><dd>
Made code adhere more strictly to C standard.
Set the BABL_PATH based on build prefix

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2006-10-09 babl-0.0.6                                               </dt><dd>
Build environment fixes.
Fixed timing code for picking correct conversions.

                                                                    </dd><dt>
2006-08-31 babl-0.0.4                                               </dt><dd>
Build environment fixes
Reduced used/exposed API.
Added GEGL speedup extension.
                                                                    </dd><dt>
2005-0x-xx babl-0.0.2 <em>Green fish release</em>                   </dt><dd>

Initial release.

                                                                    </dd><dt>
2005-08-xx babl-0.0.1                                               </dt><dd>

Development release of babl, minimal working configuration for
RGB, CMYK and YCbCr for 8bit 16bit float and double. Emphasis is on
precision and clarity of code not speed. </dd>

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